Atomic Clock as the External Time Sync Reference for NetWare 6 Servers

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01 Jun 2003

I have a question on how to configure my NetWare 6 servers to use an atomic clock as the Time Sync Reference. In particular, I am looking for answers to the following questions:

Is there a free available IP site to which we can just set the Time Sync Reference, or is it a paid service?

Do we need to spend money and purchase a hardware/appliance? If so, how much does this run?

I would appreciate any details on setting this up.

Syncing Up in Singapore

Dear Syncing: Here is a summary of the answers to your questions:

The Reference server is set up to get its time source from an external NTP source through the TIMESYNC.CFG. An example of this would be:
```
Time Source = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:123
```
You can use Public NTP sites by visiting the following Web sites:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock1a.htmlhttp://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html
The URLs of time sync servers that can be used are:

http://boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/time-servers.html

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.html

You will need to make sure that the NetWare 6 servers are able to connect to the Internet on UDP port 123; you also need to set Configured Sources to On.

* Originally published in Novell AppNotes

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